Feltmeier v. Feltmeier

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• holding that a spouse’s conduct throughout an eleven-year marriage could be considered an intentional infliction of emotional distress claim because the claim was a continuing tort
• holding that a spouse's conduct throughout an eleven-year marriage could be considered an intentional infliction of emotional distress claim because the claim was a continuing tort
• holding that a wife’s alleged severe mental distress, described as a loss of self-esteem, difficulty forming relationships, post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression, was sufficient to state a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress against her former husband
• acknowledging that a pattern or course of conduct may be actionable where one instance of extreme behavior may not be
• holding that “neither the policy considerations commonly raised nor the law of this state support a conclusion that an action for [IIED] based upon conduct occurring in the marital setting should be barred or subject to any heightened threshold for establishing outrageousness”
• explaining that “the nature of the defendant’s conduct must be so extreme as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency and be regarded as intolerable in a civilized community”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).